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Grain silo at Basrah. Working at full capacity the
facility can off-load andprocess 60,000 tonnes of grain per hour

Date palms. Iraq used to be the world’s largest producer
and exporterof dates. Over 600 varieties are grown in-country

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Saddam Hussein

Shenashils of Old Bagdad

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Saddam Hussein

Dome Rock

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The astrolabe. One of the earliest scientific instruments,
able to measurethe time of day or night and altitude and latitude, conceived
by the Greeks
it was further developed by medieval Arab astronomers, who used it tohelp
determine the time for fasting during the month of Ramadan

The Spiral Minaret in Samarra, built 848-849 A.D. Samarra
was then
the Abbasid Empire’s capital city

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A gold dinar coin, used in this region until superseded by
moremodern coins and notes

Al-Mustansirya University, Baghdad. Built in the
mid-thirteenth century itwas the most prominent university in the Islamic
world in the Middle Ages

Hadba Minaret, at the Great Nurid Mosque, Mosul, built
1172 A.Dby Nurridin Zangi, the then Turkish ruler. The 59m-high minaret
leans 8 feet off the perpendicular. That is how it earned its Arabicname
Al-Hadba (‘the humped’)

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Kurdish farmer holding sheaf of wheat and Tractor

King Hammurabi. Credited with writing the first code of
law in human
history he founded the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1700 BC, leading
Babylonia into a period of great prosperity